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NBA-Golden dynasty: Warriors win fourth NBA Championship in eight years

By Rory Carroll (Reuters) -The Golden State Warriors cemented their place as one of the NBA’s great dynasties with Thursday’s 103-90 Game Six win over the Boston Celtics sealing their fourth Championship in eight seasons. The 4-2 Finals series win brought the Warriors a seventh championship, breaking a tie with the Chicago Bulls for sole …

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Abbott halts EleCare output from plant at center of baby formula shortage

(Reuters) – Abbott Laboratories has stopped production of the EleCare specialty baby formula at its plant in southwestern Michigan after thunderstorms and heavy rains flooded parts of the facility. The pause announced on Wednesday marked the latest setback for the recently reopened Sturgis plant, which has been at the center of a baby formula shortage …

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German, French, Italian leaders ride into Kyiv with ‘message of unity’

By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) – The leaders of Germany, France and Italy rode into Kyiv on an overnight train on Thursday in a joint demonstration of support for Ukraine, where officials were pleading for more and faster deliveries of Western arms to hold off Russia’s assault. “It’s an important moment. It’s a message of …

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Brazil police find remains in search for UK journalist, suspect confesses – investigators

By Jake Spring and Bruno Kelly ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (Reuters) -Police have found human remains in their search for British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira after a suspect confessed to killing them in the Amazon rainforest, investigators said on Wednesday. The suspect, a fisherman who had clashed with Pereira over …

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Actor Kevin Spacey appears at UK court to face sex assault charges

LONDON (Reuters) -Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey appeared at a British court on Thursday to face allegations of sex offences after he was charged by London police earlier this week. Spacey is accused of five offences: four counts of sexual assault, and a further charge of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without …

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Battered by economic crisis, Sri Lankans seek passport to a better life

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – R.M.R Lenora stood in a snaking queue outside Sri Lanka’s Immigration and Emigration Department headquarters for two days last week, hoping to get a passport and, with it, a chance to leave a country wilting under an economic crisis. A garment worker, 33-year-old Lenora decided to apply for a …

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Roche suffers setback with Alzheimer’s treatment

ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Thursday its Alzheimer’s medicine crenezumab did not slow or prevent cognitive decline in people with a specific genetic mutation which causes early-onset of the disease, a study showed, in another blow after a recent setback with cancer treatment tiragolumab. Crenezumab did not show a statistically significant clinical …

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers urge leniency ahead of sex trafficking sentencing

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ghislaine Maxwell should spend fewer, and perhaps far fewer, than 20 years in prison for helping deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, her lawyers said on Wednesday, arguing that Epstein was the “mastermind” behind the abuse. Maxwell, 60, “cannot and should not bear all the punishment for …

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Ukraine ignores Sievierodonetsk ultimatum, urges faster arms deliveries

By Pavel Polityuk and Abdelaziz Boumzar KYIV/NIU-YORK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine ignored a Russian ultimatum to surrender the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk on Wednesday as the United States announced more weapons for Kyiv, which warned that arms deliveries were taking too long. Sievierodonetsk, now largely in ruins, has become the focal point of the war. Russia …

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